Indiana University's head coach Tom Crean during their team practice in March at the Verizon Center in Washington D.C.

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Zach Osterman
zach.osterman@indystar.com

Tom Crean says his team doesn't understand yet how good it is, and he's not necessarily expecting total awareness to come Saturday night.

The Hoosiers open their 2013-14 season with Southern Indiana at 7 p.m. Saturday (WIBC-93.1 FM), the first of two exhibition opponents on a schedule Indiana's media relations department believes starts earlier than the program ever has before (at least in games against other college teams). Crean admitted to "trepidation" about how his team will adjust to college basketball's new hand check rules, and he said he doesn't have any set-in-stone lineups or ...